About Lillian Freiman

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    Lillian Freiman was born in Guelph, Ontario in 1908. Her family moved to Montreal, where she studied at the Art Association of Montreal and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal under Edmond Dyonnet, Emmanuel Fougerat and Robert Mahias. She attended the Art Students League in New York and then moved to Paris for 13 years.

    The work of Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec had serious influence on Freiman's work. In 1932, she traveled to Canada and held solo shows at the Jacoby Gallery (Montreal) and at the Wilson & Co., Ottawa. The next year she visited Canada and held a solo show at the Richard Gallery, Toronto.
    She went back to Paris and stayed until 1938, when the Second World War's crisis for...

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